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The next mountain to climb is clearly in sight: it's the software-defined data center, or SDDC. Many might justifiably see SDDC as a linear extension of familiar server virtualization concepts, now being applied to things like storage and networks. While that's quite true, there's a much smaller group who sees something far more impactful -- a complete re-thinking of cloud-scale IT infrastructures: both software and hardware. I have recently converted to this second smaller group, sorry to say. As a result, I have become much more extreme than usual around the potential of what's in play here -- nothing less than yet another redrawing of the industry: the vendors who supply, and the cloud-scale customers who consume. From a vendor perspective, it really doesn't matter where you play in the stack -- there's nowhere to hide. SDDC concepts are going to change your world. If you didn't like the previous disruptive waves, you're really going to hate this next one. Yes, much of what we think of as "hardware" today becomes dynamic, virtual services under software control. But, in this new world, we start thinking about hardware differently as well -- especially at scale. A Starting Point How to think... |
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